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The Director Of GALAXY QUEST Has An Intriguing New Gig...
Merrick here...
Dean Parisot has directed many projects. Episodes of MONK and JUSTIFIED, one installment of THE TICK, and the Jim Carrey / Tea Leoni remake of FUN WITH DICK AND JANE are chief among his credits.
All of which is fine and good, but to Geeks Parisot's most significant claim to fame is helming GALAXY QUEST - 1999's smart, charming, TREK-adoring homage. Many people believe GALAXY QUEST to be the best STAR TREK since the original TREK series, even though it's not really STAR TREK at all.
While I enjoyed Abram's 2009 TREK tremendously, in terms of overall TREKness, I'd concur with the above assessment. GALAXY QUEST is consummate "Classic TREK" by proxy. Its cast (Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, and Sam Rockwell) utterly nail the vibe of both the frustrated actors they portray as well as the archetypical heroes they eventually become, and the whole of film comes together seamlessly under Parisot's astute guidance.
As such, it was with no small amount of interest that I learned that Parisot will be directing the sequel to 2010's RED. The first installment was directed by Robert Schwentke, who won't be returning this time around - although original scripters Erich and Jon Hoeber are writing the new picture. The original film's core cast - Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, and John Malkovich - are expected to reprise their roles.
RED grossed nearly $200 million in box office alone off of a budget of less than $60 million. More about its sequel over at THR, HERE.
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Yeah boi!
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Feb. 20, 2012, 1:42 p.m. CST
Galaxy Quest pwnes JJ's Star Trek, Alan Rickman's 'He wants to think!' line creases me in half everytime!
by cameron
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And it was also meaningfully complicated with it's combo satire and celebration of scifi geekdom. Much much much better than the recent "Paul"
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But Helen Mirren, hello, hot grandma!
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...even though Schwentke has a much more cinematic visual style, this type of story seems very similar to Galaxy Quest. Action comedy that straddles the line between parody and homage about past-their-prime retirees who shouldn't be able to do any of the things they're expected to do in order to save their lives, but inexplicably can. I get it. I'm probably not going to see it, but I wish him luck.
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And ill throw this out there, Hitchhiker's Guide was decent too. Nowhere near as funny as Galaxy, but both films have some pretty spectacular special fx which still hold up today, which is pretty interesting when you see actual fx blockbusters from the last few years that already look like cgi cartoons.
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I love Morgan Freeman, but he died in the first movie. So unless it's a Ghostbusters tie in, he won't be in this one. Just sayin' And Galaxy Quest is a fun, smart movie that came from out of nowhere. Tim Allen's best work outside of Buzz Lightyear.
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Fun concept, boring execution.
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Kinda pissed me off. I saw Red...but I'll be damned I don't remember that much about it.
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DO I!!? DO I!!?
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Feb. 20, 2012, 2:01 p.m. CST
I know! You'll need to make a weapon. Look around you can you construct some sort of rudimentary lathe?
by UGG
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I enjoyed the comic on which it was based for what it was, but when I saw the trailer for the movie it was so utterly unlike the serious, bloody comic that I was turned off.
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Casting was brilliant.
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I'll join the chorus here: Sam Rockwell killed in that movie. Fantastic comic timing. And Alan Rickman was funny, sad/tragic and noble all at the same time. Great, great actor.
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Brian Cox and his dog come back from the dead? Ah. Wrong 'Red'. Well, at least I added this talkback's obligatory Brian Cox reference.
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One hot space squid.
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Feb. 20, 2012, 2:10 p.m. CST
That said, I find it intriguing that there's multiple . . .
by Rob Jenson
. . . movie series now revolving around aging action heroes (and Bruce is in both this one and Expendables) Perhaps there will now be a whole sub-genre of old ass-kickers. We've got Machete Kills coming out, too, so there's another one. Any others I'm forgetting? I suppose it's because it takes so long to become a "brand" that you're old by the time it happens. Or maybe it's just Hollywood's current obsession with "brands" and risk-avoidance in general. Please, Hollywood, for the love of god, do something original. And find better use for these actors that recycling what made them popular in the first place (playing to the brand, if you will) -- unless it's, you know, actually good. Not the case with Expendables or, judging by comments, Red. Or Machete (although I would dearly love to see an actually good Machete movie, so go for it, Danny and RR).
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Or at least the deleted scenes on a special edition of the dvd?
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Did you guys ever WATCH the show?? We've gotta get out of here before one of those things kills Guy! and as mentioned, 'DON'T OPEN THAT!! IS THERE AIR?!?! YOU DON'T KNOW!!' always leaves me in stitches.. Which reminds me, I never got around to seeing Gentlemen Broncos.. is it worth checking out on DVD? Or streaming maybe?
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...of the 90s.
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Feb. 20, 2012, 2:32 p.m. CST
I love how Richman's character stays in his alien make-up
by thelordofhell
Even when it's revealed he's just an actor.
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Why are you comparing Galaxy Quest with 2009 Star Trek, they absolutely are not up for comparison in any respect. I find in laughable that you had to slip this in for whatever nerd baiting reason you might have. Bloody hell, this article is about the director of a sequel to a stupid action movie from 2010 and it somehow gets turned into a discussion about the JJ Trek... #facepalm
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...if they think Galaxy Quest can hold a dilithium crystal to J.J.'s Star Trek. Since 2009, I can hear the words "Star Trek" and not automatically cringe at the crap that would surely follow. Galaxy Quest is cute and all, but the best and most enduring aspect of that effort was the push-up bra & padding that gave Sigourney Weaver luscious breasts for the first time ever. Otherwise, seen it, done it, show me something REALLY funny next time.
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I'm going to chime in with what everyone else has been saying, Galaxy Quest is fantastic. See it if you haven't, you won't regret it.
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Feb. 20, 2012, 2:50 p.m. CST
Was GALAXY QUEST ever offered to the real STAR TREK cast?
by Margot Tenenbaum
Or would it have hit a little too close to home? Star Trek died in 1999 with DS9, GALAXY QUEST & DeForest Kelley.
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Feb. 20, 2012, 2:52 p.m. CST
Parisot's directed an ep or two of Justified? Well, my opinion of him has increased tenfold.
by openthepodbaydoorshal
But look at that Galazy Quest cast. A monkey could've directed greatness from those actors. Okay maybe I simplify...the tone is perfect for the plot and situation. And not only does the main cast deliver in spades, but Enrico Colantoni is soo good as Mathesar, in that actor that commits 200% kind of way.
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When they showed the intro to Galaxy Quest The Next Generation or whatever they called it. At the end they introduce "Guy Fleegman as Chief Security Officer, Rock Ingersol." Then Rockwell gives that big shit eating grin and gives us an "Issac the Bartender" point at the screen. That scene kills me every time. He's so happy that he's a major character now and doesn't have to worry about being killed off as Red Shirt.
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Feb. 20, 2012, 2:53 p.m. CST
Parisot made Tim Allen watchable. That is no small feat.
by Margot Tenenbaum
He was really good in that movie.
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Screw you guys.
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Are you saying that DS9 contributed to the death of "Trek?" Or are you saying it was the last real "Trek?" I would agree with the latter, and strongly argue against the former.
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Feb. 20, 2012, 3:22 p.m. CST
margot_...exactly. Didn't he work with Allen on Home Improvement?
by openthepodbaydoorshal
Assuming he knew Allen's strengths and weaknesses.
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Galaxy Quest is funny and a decent HBO at 3pm kind of flick, but I've never heard anyone say it's a Trek sequel by another name. The movie always seemed to borrow liberally from Space Quest 5. Anybody else catch that? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Quest_V:_Roger_Wilco_%E2%80%93_The_Next_Mutation
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If Alan Rickman didn't deserve an Oscar for playing the coolest villain ever in Die Hard or whatever he was in the Harry Potter films, he deserves is for that line alone.
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Fantastic. First time I discovered what a MILF she was Great film to boot
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Nuff Said.
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Feb. 20, 2012, 3:40 p.m. CST
Let's get out of here before one of those things eats Guy!
by Mandolorian
Love that movie!
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the latter
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I guess just cause it's a genre comedy that KICKS ASS, something which you're lucky to get once per decade. Also, Men in Black has aged well for me... I honestly didn't love it upon release or seeing it on DVD, but I caught it on tv recently and thought it was brilliant. What would be the genre comedy of the previous decade?
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...Shaun of the Dead.
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Feb. 20, 2012, 4:05 p.m. CST
sk229 huh? - Ghostbusters would be '80s...Men In Black the '90s...genre comedy of the '70s? Easy
by openthepodbaydoorshal
Young Frankenstein.
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but after that is just a middle of the road kinda thing. Saying "it´s the best Trek since whatever..." is just your media influenced geekdom showing up.
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So many memorable lines. It manages to pull of the rare feat of being both very funny but also thrilling, gripping and weirdly touching at times. I can't think of any other movie offhand that both makes fun of and reveres its subject matter as successfully as GalaxyQuest. If you have the DVD then you know some of the deleted scenes are as funny as anything else in the film. The bit where Rickman is shown his "quarters" on the spaceship is hilarious. The look on his face is priceless.
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...that most people who take offense to GQ being called the "best Trek" since whatever are the typical irony-deficient and humorless trekkies that dissolve into apoplexy if told "it's just a TV show."
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we see him get shot. we don't see him die. i actually expected him to show up at the end, because remember, helen mirren shot him, and ivan had already said of her character "when she shot me 3 times in the chest and i lived...i knew she loved me." so there's every possibility he's still alive
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Feb. 20, 2012, 4:27 p.m. CST
sk229 , I agree with you on the Ghostbusters comparison. I felt it was in someway the closest we'd get to a Ghostbusters of the 90's.
by LarryTheCableGuy
I guess because they're both about a group of naive/sarcastic people who are the first to stumble upon a supernatural presence and are given the equiptment to save the world. I thought M.I.B and Evolution were ok movies.
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i don't know, but i'd count Your Highness as a contender for this decade.
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[sniffs] "...seems fine to me."
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I'd agree Young Frankensteen is probably the best comedy of that decade with "The Jerk" a close second. Honorable mentions going to "Slapshot" and "Smokey and the Bandit"
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Ever notice that Tony Shalhoub's Chen acts stoned the whole movie, always looking for snacks, nonplussed by every amazing experience. Fleegman even asks him if he's stoned at one point as they walk off camera. Guaranteed there was a scene of him toking away that was cut to get a PG-13 rating.
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Let's get out of here before one of those things kills Guy!
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Feb. 20, 2012, 4:58 p.m. CST
I wanted to milk the fuck out Weaver's silicone breasts in GQ.
by KilliK
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Feb. 20, 2012, 4:58 p.m. CST
Actually, Galaxy Quest was originally developed by Harold Ramis (Egon)
by Mugato5150
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...leaves the docking bay, scraping the sides of the bay as it leaves. The sound, the reactions from all! Classic scene.
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I wasn't even going back to the 70's, but you're right, that's another one I'd watch a lot as a kid... we had it on fucking beta. My dad was a big Mel Brooks fan. I did mean the decade previous to the one we're in now, the '00s. Re: evil_twin, I haven't seen Shaun of the Dead, but really? Up there with Ghostbusters? Then again, Galaxy Quest doesn't have the following Ghostbusters does, so who knows. If we take genre to include war movies, you could say Dr. Strangelove from the 60's and Tropic Thunder from the '00s. I really just wanted to include Dr. Strangelove somehow... and I do love Tropic Thunder. It had the balls to do racial humor the way Trading Places and other 80's movies used to do it.
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Even when Galaxy Quest came out I remember thinking it was the closest we'd get to GB. It's just one of those movie you can put on in the background and be doing other stuff around the house and check in with once in a while and it just makes you feel great. Usually, though, you stop whatever you're doing and just watch the whole thing for the 20th time. GB, though, is a total masterpiece of a movie. I wouldn't quite put Galaxy Quest in that category. I was 8 when my dad took a friend and I to see it, and it's amazing to me how certain things just hold on as the years go by and you realize more and more, "Oh yeah, that wasn't just some silly comedic blockbuster that I enjoyed as a kid, it was a classic."
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Feb. 20, 2012, 5:21 p.m. CST
Red was like watching an old man with constipation try to take a shit
by Jaster Mareel
Kind of embarrassing, but mostly just boring. Truthfully I didn't even get halfway through it. Dick and Jane was one of the worst so-called comedies I've ever seen. So I guess this is a good match then.
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I'm not saying it wasn't good. It was great. But Ghostbusters quality? No.
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Feb. 20, 2012, 5:50 p.m. CST
Act 3 of Galaxy Quest swipes Act 3 from the 1996 Doctor Who TV Movie
by lynxpro
Just substitute "Omega 13" [or whatever the compound was called] for the "Eye of Harmony" and you have the resolution in Act 3 for both properties...
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Galaxy Quest is awesome.
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Feb. 20, 2012, 6:28 p.m. CST
Can we PLEASE have the 'uncensored' Quest on DVD now DreamWorks?
by J.B.M.A.
That fucking awful overdub of Sigourney has hurt me ever since I witnessed the proper unspoiled line at the cinema. One of the funniest gags in the movie RUINED.
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That was a hell of a thing.
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Check your rater, dang thing's busted.
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It was a terrible dub.. FUCK THAT!
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Feb. 20, 2012, 6:43 p.m. CST
Too bad Darryl "Chill" Mitchell is in a chair now, but he's still
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
out there acting his ass off.
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All who paid actual cash to see 'RED', will be AVENGED!!!
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More of his creations should be adapted to the big screen.
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I literally fell out of my chair twice while watching that movie in theaters. I laughed hysterically all the way through. Probably the best comedy I have ever seen. So many brilliantly quotable lines.
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The scene where the black guy realises he has to steer the ship out of the dock is hysterical. Plus Sig's running gag of repeating the computer. Ducts! Why do there always have to be ducts! LOL! I forget how funny this is. Then I put it on occationally and am always surprised at exactly really how funny it is.
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Feb. 20, 2012, 10:12 p.m. CST
RED was terrible!! cheap looking and full of jarring tonal shifts.
by FleshMachine
bad bad film.
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Galaxy Quest is a perfect comedy, on par with Ghostbusters, but it's less accessable.
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Poor Fleegman attempting to rise above his red shirt status by trying to be logical and scientific when the captain is in a jam. Hilarious.
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...including Rickman's quarters, for those of you who haven't seen them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM_IQAhvnKQ
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Feb. 21, 2012, 6:46 a.m. CST
Just read the article and still don't know the name of the director of one of my favorite movies.
by UltraTron
Why there was never a Quest sequel when we got at least 7 entries in Trek we could all do without..
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Feb. 21, 2012, 6:48 a.m. CST
jackslater4: well when you stop mainlining heroin some memory should return to you.
by UltraTron
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Also, no one else seems to think so, but after playing RIpley I never found Sigourney hot.. until Galaxy Quest. Yeah Rockwell makes the film but pretty much everyone is killer in it, Shaloub's half stoned engineer cracks me up also. 'Sorry about that cap.... I'll get one of my guys down here with some WD40...'
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The animal is inside out?!
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Feb. 21, 2012, 8:19 a.m. CST
If they had rebooted Trek with all those actors, I would have been happy with that.
by Ironhelix
Fantastic film.
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Feb. 21, 2012, 8:38 a.m. CST
By Grobthar's hammer- is there to be no more Galaxy Quest?!
by UltraTron
Easily the best Dreamworks film to date besides War of the Worlds. Naturally they hadn't the slightest idea how to maket it and totally fucked up.
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Still waiting for a worthy sequel. Why is it that really awesome movies never get one?
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Hey, Brian Cox poster, you're getting sloppy. You should have posted this. Get to it man!
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Feb. 21, 2012, 10:39 a.m. CST
galaxy quest: Id rather see it re-released in 3d than get a crap sequel.
by Arcadian Del Sol
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I was pretty sure he died in Red. I didn't think like Red as much as I thought I would. The best parts were in the trailer.
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